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How can everyone have everything though? It doesn't work. Say you have 10 people, and 10 jobs. 1 job pays £10, the others £1. Not "anyone" can improve their lot. Only one person can.

This chap puts it more eloquently than me http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/may/05/no-normal-election-dont-let-your-voice-be-taken-away-owen-jones

This.

No, anyone cannot improve their lot. Everyone cannot have everything; it's impossible. There will always be some losers.

Oh yeah, forgot the wage top-ups. I'm amazed that people fall for it. And it's not the bosses and government who get the blame anyone, they have turned us against our ourselves. Let's blame people on low pay, the disabled, immigrants instead.

There's a huge difference between hard work and the destructive long hours some people have to work to make ends meet.

This.

You really talk some rubbish at times.

No.

This. And the weird thing is some people see working long hours as a badge of honour.

No big deal. Happens every year. Union demands x, employer offers y, strike and they meet in the middle. Germany doesn't have the same hysteria over striking as the UK does.

Oh ffs. Behave. Take a look at the real figures. It's smoke and mirrors based on zero-hour contracts and low paid work. And look at the productivity for the true state of the UK. And I thought you understood numbers?

They needed to spend, the country was falling apart.

So sound the party of alleged economic competence was emphatically booted out of office. Blair inherited a country which was literally falling apart and critically starved of investment. If there was any money it was because it hadn't been spent on school, hospitals, roads and infrastructure.